There's a staggering market for mobile financial services, if only the stakeholders who stand to benefit could get out of their own way.

Visa and Vodafone Australia are launching the SmartPass mobile wallet, which lets consumers with Near Field Communication-equipped phones make payments through a virtual Visa prepaid card.

This holiday season many retailers are introducing experimental payment technology — but will shoppers, stressed and desperate, find benefit in these experiences or stick to methods they know?

Facebook now allows customers of Orange, a French wireless operator, to make purchases online and have the charges added to their phone bills.

TransCard has formed a partnership with DeviceFidelity’s Moneto payments service to provide its bank clients the ability to create their own mobile wallets.

The $8 billion hedge fund acquired a 9.9 percent stake in Groupon as it bets on technology companies attempting turnarounds. Groupon recently began identifying itself as a payments company with the introduction of a mobile card reader it offers to its merchant customers.

Revel Systems is now delivering its iPad-based point-of-sale products into larger retail settings — and intends to make a push for equipping major retailers early next year.

PROVO, Utah – MoneyDesktop has announced the launch of its MoneyMobile app which empowers financial institutions to maintain their existing relationships with account holders, quickly add users and drive loan volume.

RIDGECREST, Calif. – AltaOne FCU has chosen the oFlows multi-channel platform for online deposit account opening.

Hurricane Sandy is likely to stir up credit card delinquencies in the next month or so, but performance remained strong in the batch of recent reports.

Network Merchants Inc. has launched the iProcess Mobile Gateway Service, a standalone mobile service for merchants that want to process credit cards through mobile devices.

Inside Secure announced it will purchase Embedded Security Solutions from AuthenTec, a unit of Apple, before the end of the year.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Malauzai Software announced today the launch of Picture PayO, a mobile payment solution that enables users to complete payments via the camera on their smartphone or tablet mobile device.

FDCPA lawsuits are on track to finish 2012 down roughly six percent from the year-ago period, according to WebRecon LLC, a company that gathers the data from U.S. district courts.

When Total System Services Inc. closes its deal in the next month to acquire ProPay and its various payments services, the payment processor will have a new "Square-like" look and feel to ramp up its merchant acquiring business.

The prepaid card market has become an unstoppable locomotive, and will continue its course unless unexpected federal regulations slow it down, according to new data.

An initial agreement between EBay and Intuit took effect in August 2006, and eBay backed away from hiring an Intuit employee for an opening at its PayPal unit, according to the complaint. By April 2007, the accord became a no-hire agreement,

Facebook has been "liked" by a countless number of credit unions. The same can't be said, however, for credit unions looking to show any ROI on Facebook or other social media.

Faced with potential litigation due to a discrepancy in its system for tracking paid time-off for an employee requiring surgery, Pioneer West Virginia FCU has revamped its payroll system to include a number of improvements.

A third-party security audit at OSU FCU here found deficiencies in five security-related areas, leading to the internal development of a program here called STOP.